School: Ráth na Loch (C.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 17000)
- Location:
- Ranalough, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Aodhgáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)a large black snail. They put him on a slate and say
Good morrow Good morrow fair yarrow thrice
Good-morrow to thee
I hope before this time to – morrow, thou wilt
show my true love to me.
The black snail is supposed to around the slate and write the name of her true love on it.
St John’s day – On this night bonfires are lighted and the boys and girls dance around the fires.
St Peter and Paul June 29th:
It is said the cuckoo is heard no more after the twenty-ninth of June because the day before St John was martyred the cuckoo was “cooing” all day and in the evening St John said, Shut up we are bothered from you. The cuckoo was never heard since the twenty ninth of June out.
November Day –
Halloween is the name give to the night of the thirty first of October. A great feast is held in every house on this night. A currant cake is made and into to it is put a ring, a piece of cloth and a bit of a stick and sometimes a bit of silver. The cake is then divided. Whoever gets the ring will be first to be married. Whoever gets(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Butler
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ranalough, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Tom Butler
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Ranalough, Co. Kerry
